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Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine with officers of the NAACP at their 49th annual convention. Mrs. Bates and the nine students received an award for their heroism during the school integration crisis in September, 1957. Pictured seated in row 1, left to right: Carlotta Walls, Melba Pattillo, and Elizabeth Eckford. Standing in Row 2 are, left to right: Terrence Roberts, Thelma Mothershed, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, Kivie Kaplan (of the NAACP), Minnijean Brown, Ernest Green, Daisy Bates, and James B. Levy, president of the Cleveland NAACP chapter.

Warriors Don’t Cry: Connecting History, Literature, and Our Lives

Teaching Activity PDF. By Linda Christensen. 21 pages. Role play and writing activities for language arts and social studies on the Little Rock Nine, Brown v. Board, and schooling in general. Designed for use with the memoir, “Warriors Don’t Cry.”

Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Senior High

Book – Non-fiction. By Melba Pattillo Beals. 2007. 336 pages. Story of a teenage girl chosen to integrate Little Rock High School.

This lesson includes a reading by Elizabeth Ann Eckford about her experience after she was denied entrance to Little Rock Central High School; September 4, 1957. Photo by Will Counts.

“A School Year Like No Other”: Eyes on the Prize: “Fighting Back: 1957-1962″

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 7 pages. A companion lesson to the “Eyes on the Prize” segment on school integration.

Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1985

Film. Produced by Henry Hampton. Blackside. 1987.
Comprehensive documentary history of the Civil Rights Movement.

Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock

Film. Directed by Sharon LaCruise. 2011. Documentary on the life of Daisy Bates, best know for her role with the Little Rock Nine.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Exactly 56 years ago, the Little Rock 9 integrated Central High. » Little Rock 9 Zinn Education Project